By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

It was a chilly start this morning but later when the sun was able to peek through the clouds it wasn’t so bad. Joyce was out before me this morning and had a falcon on the southeast corner of the Times Square building(TSB) when I was on my bus to downtown. Still dark out when I walked by the TSB I couldn’t see the falcon so I continued on to the Broad St. bridge to try my luck. I couldn’t see anything up there either. Joyce reported the pefa flew off and she saw 2 flying before finding them on the Frontier Communications tower(FCT). Dana joined me on the BSB as Joyce tweeted she could hear echupping on Widows Walk(WW).

I decided to take a walk to the east side and check HSBC,Xerox,Midtown and Bausch&Lomb. Nothing over there but Dana tweeted that Beauty was at the nest box so I made my way back over to the bridge. On my way over Carol tweeted that  Beauty had left the nest box and when I reached Broad and South Ave. I spotted the Beautyful one on the northeast corner of the Crossroads building.

Jeanne and Larry were checking out the herons down in the river. Dana was on the north side of the BSB getting into position to see Beauty on Crossroads. I was distracted by the beautiful changing skies this morning, billowing puffy clouds and shades of orange and  pink colored the sky.

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Carol was over at FCT  having a bit of trouble figuring out who she was seeing on the tower. I can totally relate to that! lol Joyce and Dana were out searching for falcons which left Jeanne and I on the bridge alone since Larry had left as well. A watcher named Judy came by whom Jeanne had met before but it was my first time so Jeanne introduced us. When she heard there were falcons at FCT she left to go see. I noticed she had a very nice camera as she pulled away in her Jaguar with the convertible top down. SWEET! Jeanne and I chatted and checked the river and sky just waiting for the birds to come to us. Last night while on a short evening watch I met Laura and her husband Mike and their children Joe and Katie. Debra and her son Sam were there as well. Nice to meet all these new people. Back to today- I noticed a man with a BIG camoflage  lens setting up a tripod on the upper landing of the Blue Cross Arena(BCA) north side. As it turns out he is Ricardo from Chile who came to see Orion. It was all quite peaceful and nice  but Jeanne and I didn’t want to fall asleep so we took a ride over to FCT! LOL

When we got over there Judy was watching from in front of City Hall a few cars up from us on the street and Carol was in the parking lot out of view so she never saw Judy. I looked up and saw Dot.Ca(DC) on the platform railing east side. He was fidgety and suddenly just as I got my camera ready he pooped(usually a precursor to take off) and then he took off toward TSB.

Dana was parked up by Widows Walk on Fitzhugh and so Jeanne and I parked behind her. DC had landed near the northeast corner of the WW railing. And he moved on soon after we got there.

Jeanne and I went back to FCT where Jeanne saw a falcon stoop off the top arm to the west side out of sight. We met up with Carol in the City Hall parking lot where we decided to take a ride over by Kodak Office to take a look see. I’m not sure where Carol took off to. No luck over at KO so Jeanne and I returned to the BSB and found Larry there. Beauty was at the nest box and DC went to the jail tower to eat a tiny morsel of food.

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Jeanne had to be leaving and asked if I’d like a ride home or if I was staying. I accepted the ride home as my head was pounding. I was disappointed to not have seen our beautiful boy Orion but happy enough to have seen his parents which sent me home with a smile on my face! 🙂

Links below for my photo album and videos-just click on them

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWrH5g

http://youtu.be/OOb1hmx7yao This one is quick as DC flew off almost as soon as I started recording
http://youtu.be/K6ws8JrpZDQ
http://youtu.be/urZyd026Bdg

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